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A Personal F r i e d Questionnaire waa administered to various groups of Egyptian subjects totalling 1028 in all. This questionnaire is composed of seventy items, each of which is to be checked either + 2, + 1, 0,-1 or -2. Extreme response scores were obtained by counting the number of times + 2 or -2 were assigned by each subject. Corrected split-half reliabilities of the 'extreme response scores for males and females were 0.92 in both c w . The extreme response set scores are suggested as possible measures of intolerance of ambiguity. A general hypothesis waa formulated according to which a social group with a higher tension level would earn a higher extreme response score than a social group with a lower tension level. The theoretical formulation of the problem in this way allowed for four predictions, about the effect on extreme response set scores of age, sex, membership of a religious minority and socio-economic status. For verification of the predictions, the social groups were matched for age, sex and religion. The four expectations were, on the whole, fulfilled.

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O n demande B de larges kchantillons igyptiens d'itudiants en Arts et d'itudiants d'autres disciplines de juger une sirie de polygones d'aprts leurs priferences esthitiques et b l'aide d'une ichelle en 7 points. Les jugements sont soumis b une intercorrelation siparee pour 3 groupes (itudiants en Arts du sexe masculin, itudiants en Arts du sexe fiminin et itudiants d'autres disciplines du sexe ferninin) et on procede a une analyse factorielle des matrices obtenues. Quinze facteurs sont extraits et soumis b une rotation Varimax. Les facteurs retenus sont comparts B des facteurs similaires obtenus pricidemment chez des sujets anglais. 11 est possible d'interprtter une douzaine de facteurs pour l'ichantillon Cgyptien et ceux-ri s'avtrent trts semblables aux facteurs observts chez les Anglais. Les A. concluent que les rtsultats ne sont pas en faveur d'une interpretation purement culturelle des determinants des jugements esthitiques prifirentiels.Two previous studies have reported preference judgments for polygonal figures of English and Japanese (Eysenck and Iwawaki, 1971) and English and Egyptian (Soueif and Eysenck, I 971) subjects. Both studies found considerable agreement in mean ratings for th,: cross-cultural samples. This study is concerned not with mean ratings, but rather with what might be called the fine grain of judgment, i.e. the various factors which determine preference judgments. Detailed factor analyses of preference ratings for the 90 Birkhoff (193 z) polygons have been reported for English samples, both of artists and non-artists, by Eysenck (1968) and Eysenck and Castle (1970) and it was shown that there are about a dozen replicable factors which determine these preference judgments ; these factors were largely independent of sex or amount of art training. The present investigation is concerned with a similar analysis of ratings made by Egyptian students, and a comparison of the resulting factors with those which had emerged from the English samples; it seemed reasonable to predict, in view of the similarity in mean rating observed earlier, that the factors emerging from this analysis wouldWe are indebted to the Social Science Research Council for support of this study.